Synopsis

"A portrait of the playwright as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937 living with his family in crowded, lower-middle-class circumstances. Eugene is the narrator and central character. His mind is full of fiercely fantasized dreams of baseball and dimly fantasized images of girls. The play's scenes consists of a few days in the life of his struggling Jewish family. As Eugene's father says, 'if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't live in this house.'